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title: underbrush — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «underbrush» in the school dictionary: Small bushes and plants growing under big trees in a wood. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# underbrush

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**Who acts:** plants, rabbit, wolf, We · **What happens:** grow, hide, run, push · **To what, where:** big trees, underbrush

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«underbrush» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [underbrush in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/underbrush.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Small bushes and plants growing under big trees in a wood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underbrush:m1:1
# text = Small bushes and plants growing under big trees in a wood.
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | plants *not said here* |  |  | big trees |  | in a wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The rabbit hid in the underbrush.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underbrush:x1:1
# text = The rabbit hid in the underbrush.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the rabbit |  |  | the underbrush |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in underbrush=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The wolf ran into the underbrush.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underbrush:x2:1
# text = The wolf ran into the underbrush.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the wolf |  |  |  |  | into the underbrush *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into underbrush=Result |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We pushed through the underbrush.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underbrush:x3:1
# text = We pushed through the underbrush.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | We |  |  | the underbrush |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through underbrush=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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